Mental Health - November 2006

1. How old are you?
2. Male or female?
3. Were you given tests to determine that you are ADHD?
4. Are you taking Medication? If not Why? Give all information.
5. Are you working? How Long?
6. Do you think you are different from your peers?
7. Do others seem to learn faster, better, easier then you?
8. Do you think that having ADHD has been harmful in any aspects of your life?

2006-11-07 03:05:17 · 6 answers · asked by Nancy L 1

Does anyone have any ideas for learning to keep emotions hidden or at least to not be ruled by them?

I find that whatever I'm feeling is extremely apparent to everyone who knows me, especially people who care about me. I have no defences. When I am hurt or angry or just depressed, I cry. The tears just come and everyone knows that I'm worked-up. I can't just put on a cool face and pretend that I'm not affected. This makes it easy for people to "get to me" and I feel weak when they know I am that bothered.

Also, I find it very hard to do anything when I'm having a problem emotionally. I can't work well or get on with my life until the crisis is solved.

Does anyone else have this problem?

2006-11-07 03:04:32 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-11-07 02:56:05 · 5 answers · asked by maulesh j 1

I suffer from depression a lot but everyday I keep plodding along. The thing which keeps me going is the media. Now I think that I can't die until I have seen saw 3. After that I will hopefully find a book that I have to finish or a computer game that I have to complete. What keeps you going through the bad times in life?

2006-11-07 02:54:49 · 23 answers · asked by SR13 6

Last night I had a really bad nightmare. Basically, I was at school- it was mine in the dream, but not mine currently- and (even thuogh I'm a good student, straight- A's normally) I was skipping classes and getting into all kinds of stuff. I'd have weird periods of disorentation, and frequently find myself with...less clothes than I'd normally choose to wear. Near the end of the dream, I had what I now recognize as one of the scariest revelations anyone could have. I realized I was going crazy. I knew I needed a doctor, but our family couldn't afford it, so I'd have to spend the rest of my life mentally unstable.

I woke up in a cold sweat...can anybody tell me what this means?

2006-11-07 02:50:46 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

-lagging behind in my classes
-Getting married soon
-stressed out from work
-Project problems
-Graduating soon
-Not getting good grades

plz help me I cannot handle all these things at the same time. I am soo stressed out at this moment..

2006-11-07 02:43:58 · 14 answers · asked by lisa 1

I have had problems in remembering information. I have listed that I and many people commonly face. I have tried pneumonics and mindmapping.

1. I have a very bad retention. For example if people are talking about some everyday event. I fail to recall it. Once they talk about it I can identify it but I were asked to explain that event, I wouldnt have been able to recall as many details.
2. I also dont seem to remember well what I have read. So I often have to learn parts of the text.
3. I forget information learnt a few days back. And I have to revise more than other people in order to retain that information. I have seen people who easily remember what was talked about or done in class a few weeks back even without revising but I cant do so.
4. Losing track when reading a long article. If someone asks me what I read, I am quite blank and can only offer a one line answer.
5. When studying a lot of concepts, forgetting a lot of them e.g retroactive interference.

2006-11-07 02:41:21 · 6 answers · asked by Alan D 1

2006-11-07 02:37:51 · 9 answers · asked by April w 1

2006-11-07 02:34:33 · 8 answers · asked by Wendy L 1

my age is 28 yrs..... I am suffering from body pain and stiffness all over the body and loss of energy.I have done all the muscle tests and calcium supplements dint help me,doc says it is due to depression,I came across thomas hanna's article on somatic tensions and its relation with bodypain. need more info....Kindly help.

2006-11-07 02:31:16 · 2 answers · asked by Avadhut 1

MAY SOUND SILLY BUT WILL IT BE OK ONE DAY OR WILL IT BE A SLOW CHANGE IN MOOD

2006-11-07 02:07:35 · 18 answers · asked by mike 2

yeah........is there any way to cure the disease of boredom??? cause i always seem to be bored with my life as it is. even though i have friends and stuff i always am bored with every thing i do is there somthing wrong or do you have the same thing.and if your tinking i depressed i'm already dealing with that i have taken THAT undercontrol!!

2006-11-07 01:45:59 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-11-07 01:33:24 · 4 answers · asked by somethingelse 5

Okay, anywho, I am not doing very well in this first quarter of 8th grade. One of my teachers, who I hate, gave me a low grade on a 70 point project and now wants me to call her! Only problem is I worked on it the morning before the class and came in late. I pretended I had a doctor's appointment. Secondly, there is this guy that I have gone out with twice, we split then got back together, well I still like him, but he is going with one of my friends. NOT ONLY THAT, but he keeps on asking me if I want to have sex with him. I am trying to do better this quarter, but I am just losing it. Oh right, I have depression and no one knows except some of my friends, so I have been kind of sluggish lately and it is so hard to do this. I am getting a pschological test, you know when they try to figure out your learning style and what not, but I'm afraid of what is going to happen. I just feel like giving up and commiting suicide. Without the pain. PLEASE HELP.

2006-11-07 01:27:27 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

My favorite is the decemberists and i listen to them in my car, my computer, ipod, everywhere...even as i go to sleep. it affects and takes up my time and i realize it but i like listening to the songs over and over again and singing along. i should be studying and doing other things...

its like someone addicted to the internet but this is to a particular band. i dont know how to stop. i keep listening to them and have tried to stop but it just doesnt work. its like smoking and tobacco, and the songs are my fuel.

it affects me especially when it comes to study time and i tell myself i will study hard for exams but rather i end up just searching for live concerts of the band and download different live shows.

they're my favorite band and dont want to stop listening to them but i do agree that i listen to them too much.

i have like 3 different cd's of the band, all the same songs just sang at different concert venues...its all i listen to. help!!!!

please., this is serious to me.

2006-11-06 22:37:54 · 5 answers · asked by Legionnaire 1

I am ashamed that I even have to ask the question. But I have been going through bouts of paranoid for the past few months and I think if I don't seek help I might end up in the looney farm.

So I just need to know, does going to a pyschologist works? Or maybe I should invest my time in meditation or picking up a religion? Because I have been to see a pyschologist once, but when I see him I just dun feel secure in confinding in him.

Can anybody whose being through this help? I dun want to end up a crazy person.

2006-11-06 22:30:42 · 11 answers · asked by Make a wish 1

2006-11-06 21:42:45 · 7 answers · asked by dot hack 1

I was diognosed with Bi-polar disorder , Borderline personality disorder, Schizo effective disorder, anxiety, and ocd. Is it really possible to have all these all at once?

2006-11-06 20:30:09 · 8 answers · asked by coffeejitterzz 2

My doctor wrote me a prescription for it yesterday & I've heard bad things about it. I don't know if I should take it or not.

2006-11-06 20:13:44 · 11 answers · asked by Ladybug 1

I am having such a hard time motivating myself lately, I feel like I can't get anything done or be very productive with my day-to-day life. I also work nights and I feel like it's thowing me out of whack. (Don't say switch to days, I can't right now.) Any suggestions/constructive thoughts?

2006-11-06 19:19:52 · 6 answers · asked by St. Louis Girl 3

I am trying to improve my self confidence as this is one thing that I have acknowledged as causing depression. I am particularly interested in hearing from gay men. I am 38, and I used to be confident as a young man, but over the years, things have happened, and I now have lost about 90% of my confidence. I need to get it back.

Yes I am seeing a therapist, and on anti-depressants.
Please no smart alec answers.

If there are others out there who have had low self esteem, self confidence, please tell me what you did to improve it, what worked for you, and also what didn't work for you. We are all individuals, and different methods work for different people.

Cheers

2006-11-06 19:04:03 · 1 answers · asked by fugidoxi 1

I am trying to improve my self confidence as this is one thing that I have acknowledged as causing depression. I am particularly interested in hearing from gay men. I am 38, and I used to be confident as a young man, but over the years, things have happened, and I now have lost about 90% of my confidence. I need to get it back.

Yes I am seeing a therapist, and on anti-depressants.
Please no smart alec answers.

If there are others out there who have had low self esteem, self confidence, please tell me what you did to improve it, what worked for you, and also what didn't work for you. We are all individuals, and different methods work for different people.

Cheers

2006-11-06 19:03:36 · 2 answers · asked by fugidoxi 1

ok so im a bit wary of putting this all up here but i dont know where else to turn.
I hate my life.
I lost my job.
Im in debt up to my eyeballs (ive tried Debt management companies but i cant eve afford their repayments!)
My partner does nothing but annoy me
I dont get on with my parents (never have)
I hate where i live
Sometimes i wish id never had my daughter who is nearly 2
I hate looking in a mirror
I hate even seeing my name written down
I just want to stop it all and have a fresh start......
When i go to the Drs, i break down and i just dont tell them half of what is in my head, coz i know im taking up their time and prob dont want to see a 27 year old woman in floods of tears in their office.
Im scared that if i do tell them everything they will lock me up as a complete loon.
WHat should i do?

2006-11-06 19:01:00 · 36 answers · asked by cadippoz 1

2006-11-06 18:21:34 · 10 answers · asked by Subconsciousless 7

One of my classmates has bipolar disorder, he spoke a lot filthy language on my voicemail, and obviously he was in manic condition...
I just wonder that did he really mean to say that? Is there any meaning of what he said?

2006-11-06 18:05:49 · 15 answers · asked by Debby 3

Hello,
My mother was diagnosed with Bi-polar back in 1993 and has had to be court ordered to take medications following three very sever manic episodes. This past year was the last, and she was in the hospital for several months. She has her medications stable again, Lithium, and a couple new ones. This time around she and my dad ended up divorcing as a result, and I have helped her restart a new life on her own. She is very depressed and I know that doctors don't necessarily recommend anti-depresents with bi-polar disorder. Is there something to help her from being so depressed? She has a fear of doctors as well, which doesn't help. I try to see her as often as I can, but it is very hard to see her so despondent. She won't take care of herself or her new place. We have found a program to help with a nurse three times a day and house cleaning. But it seems as soon as I go away she will resort back to watching tv/sleeping and crying all the time. Any help???

2006-11-06 18:04:13 · 10 answers · asked by Lilly 2

How come I keep on seeing 1123 on clocks and license plates and cell phones and seats in school and buses and on tv nd heard on radio . The weirdest part is that my dad sees 1122 nd wen i told him i see 1123 he freaked out is it some kind of genetic weirdness that gets passed down?? i mean i see it every where my dads b-day is 1-1-54 nd 1+1+5+4= 11 i mean its so weird and my b-day is 3-7-91 but that only equals 101 (once u add them) and yea it is so weird why is this?? please it freaks me outs umtimes because I dont ever try to see it i just see it randomly im movies too. My dads doctors appointment was 11-14-06 at 8am and he canceled it because 8 + 14 equals 22. 11-22-06 and 11-23-06 is coming up and we both wonder what is going to happen if anything.. please help me!

2006-11-06 17:58:53 · 10 answers · asked by scott g 1

I need some adive on how to relieve the stress of life. I am a junior in high school and I am constatnly packed with work. I ususally do not got to sleep unitl 1 or 2 in the morning and I have to cut uout daily meals just to finish my work. I will appreciate it if you could give me some advice on time management.

2006-11-06 17:29:38 · 6 answers · asked by petswodahs 1

My oldest Daughter was born at 3:13, but she is home safe now, it is really freaking me out, I will even wake up out of a dead sleep and it will be 3:13.

2006-11-06 17:13:25 · 6 answers · asked by kimberly d 1

2006-11-06 17:11:50 · 17 answers · asked by angel 1